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Patented June 12,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRYC'. IIIOKS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECFCATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,162, dated June 12, 1883.

Application inea october?, 1882. (Nomade.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY CLINTON HrcKs, a resident of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State 'of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock- Cars, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to stock-cars, and it consists in the construction and the combi-y nation of parts hereinafter particularly de-A scribed, and then sought to be speeiiically defined by the claims. Y

Figure 1 is a cross-seetional view, Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view, of the frame of a stock-car with my improvements attached thereto. Fig. 4t is a side view, enlarged, ofthe feed-rack and wat-ertank folded up. Fig. 5 is a sectional side view of the same opened out, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5, illustrating the method of construction when a bottom is required thereto.

This invention relates to that class of cars for conveying stock upon railroads, 85e., in which a separate stall is provided for each animal and means provided for supplying them with feed and water while in transit.

The invention may be applied to any style of car, either made for the purpose or applied to the ordinary stock-ears at present in use. In the drawings I have shown it applied to an ordina-ry stock-car box, in whichA is the lfloor, B the upright stanchions supporting the root'- timbers C, and D is the root'. 1

At interv. ls corresponding to the width of the space eaeln animal requires in the car, upright metal bars or tubes E are secured by their lower ends in the floor ofthe car, on 'opposite sides, and run up nearly tot-he roof D, and are bent over at angles at E and secured by their upper ends, a, to the roof-timbers C or other suitable portion of the car, as shown. By this means the car is divided up by the bars E E2 into equal spaces, representing stalls for the animals. rlhe bars will be placed with their inner sides even with or outside of the inner line of the stanchions B, so that the bars themselves will offer no lobstruction to the interior of the car.

Surrounding each of these bars E E is a number of collars, b, each opposite pair of col lars upon each opposite pair of the bars being connected to flexible metal orl wooden plates F, and the upper one-of each of said sets of plates F supported from the roof of the car by cords or chains d, and the remainder of the plates supported from the upper plate and each other by similar cords or chains, c?, so that the collars and plates will assume the position shown in the Aforeground of Fig. l and Vform partitions between the stalls, as hereinafter shown. Y

Attached to the outside of each of the 'collars b are small perforated lugs d, to receive cords c, as hereinafter shown.

Passing through the upper sides of the car, near the roof, and just above the upper ends of each opposite pair of the bars E E2, where they are attached to the timbers C, are shafts G, having square ends g and ratchet-wheels, with which dogs h engage on the outside, so that the shafts may be revolved from the outside and held at any point `by the ratehets, and dogs. Secured to these shafts G, just inside the car, are drums II, to which the ends of the cords e, before mentioned, are attached and passed down through the holes in the lugs d on the collars b of each, end of each separate stall and attached to the lowermost lugs ol' each set. By this arrangement the revolving of the shafts G will wind up the cords e on the drums H, raise the lower set of lugs, b, and plate F 4upon Vthe bars E E until the upper edge of the plate strikes the next plate above, and then both will be elevated until the next is reached, and so on until the last plate is reached, when all the plates and collars upon that set or pair of the bars E l will be drawn upward upon the inclined upper parts, E2, as shown at E, leaving the lower part of the car entirely unobstructed when all the partitions are drawn up to the top of the ear, so that all the cattle can go out together, which is an advantage, for very often when men attempt to drive out one at a time it much diiiiculty will be experienced and danger run in getting it out, but when they are all free to move out together one will follow the other without being forced or driven.

The angle between that part of the oord e 'from the drum H to the first set of lugs, d, and the upright part E' of the bars is quite marked,

will refuse to go, and A IOO A be made of and, unless some device were used to prevent it, the collars b would bind upon thebars when the drums H were revolved; but to prevent this I arrange grooved pulleys m upon the stanchion B, next to the bars E E2 and just beneath the curved portion connecting the parts E El, over which the cords are held when the partitions are lowered, and hohl the cords nearly parallel with the parts E of the bars when the partitions are drawn up, and prevent cramping at the collars when the partitions are raised. The upper parts of the stanchions B will be cut away to permit the ends of the partitions to pass them. By this means each animal can be readily and easily separated from his Yfellows and ]irovided with a separate stall.

As before stated, the bars E El will usually gas-pipe or other tubing, whereby lightness and strength are combined. The plates F will be of thinmetal or wood, softhat a certain degree of flexibility will be obtained to prevent their too easy breakage by the pressure of the animals against them.

Attached to the ends of the lower plates, F, of each stall, upon alternate sides of the car, are combined feed and water racks and tanks, con` sisting of plates or back` K, attached to the low` er plates, F, and connected by pivoted parallel bars a to front plates, K2, simil ar to the backs K. Vhen the partitions are down the lower ends of both plates K K2 rest upon the floor of the car, as shown in the left-hand stall in Fig. 2, and then when the partions are raised upward the back plates, K', with the plates F, to which they are attached, and the front plates, K2, by their weight, will remain upon the iioor until the parallel bars nr draw them toward the plates K', as shown in the right-hand stall of Fig'. 2, thereby forming selffolding racks for the feed. Tater-tanks L are hinged to the upper edges of the front plates, K2, and adapted to be turned over inside the racks, as shown in Fig. 4, when notin use.

ln Figs. l, 2, and 3 the second stall from the left-hand side is represented with its combined feed-rack and water-tank folded up and the partition elevated up to the top ofthe car. lhe first and fourth stalls have the partitions down in position and the combined feed-rack and watertank opened out as in use, and the remaining stall, or the thirdone from the left, with the lower plate, F, of its partition raised ashort distance, and the water-tank partiallyv turned over inside the front plate, K2. Small canvas or other suitable shields, M, will be attached between thc plates F, opposite the fecd-racks, to prevent the. animals interfering with each others feed. Y

The animals will be placed in the cars in the ordinary manner, the head of one being opposite the rear of the next one, and so on throughout the car, therebynecessitating the arrangement of the feed racks and tanks alternately, as shown.

will be carried up In Figs. l, 2, and 3 the feed-racks are shown without bottoms, as the hay or cut feed can rest upon the iloor ofthe car, but under some circumstances it may be desired to put bottoms in them, which may be easily done, as shown in Figs, 4, 5, and 6, which represent en lai-ged views of one of the racks and tanks with a bottom, K", arranged therein.

Foot-boards N will be arranged alongside the car, adapted to be held up to support the attendants in caring for or loading or'unloading the stock, and folded down out ofthe way when not in use.

In loading the animals the partitions are all raised up, and when the iii-st animal is in place the iirst partition is lowered down to shut it into its stall. The next animal is then driven in and the next partition lowered down, and so on throughout the car. XVhere the door-s are in the center, the ends are loaded first, and the last animal driven in at the center 5 but when the doors are t the end the cars can be loaded entirely from the ends \Vhen the doors are in the center of the car, the center bars, E El, and attached partitions may be made removable, if desired, so as not to interfere with the use ofthe car for other purposes than stock-cars. 'Vhen. not used as a stock-car, the partitions will be raised up out ofthe way, as before stated, so as not to obstruct the interior of the car.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim isn il.. In a stock-car, the combination of a series of upright guidebars angular at their upper ends, partitions adapted to slide upon said bars, means for elevating said partitions, and fold ing feed-troughs connected to said partitions, whereby they canbe elevated with the partitions and supported at the top of the angular bars, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a stock-car, the combination of series of upright guide-bars angular at their' upper ends, partitions adapted to slide up on said bars, means for elevating said partitions from the outside of the car, and folding feed-troughs con' nected to said partitions, whereby they can be elevated with the partitions and supported at the top ofthe angulaibars, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a stock-car having a series of stalls formed of upright bars angular at their upper ends, and an elevating partition, thecombination therewith of a rope or chain for elevating the partition, 'and a pulley or roller for the chain to run over, located at the angle of the upright bar, silbstantially as and for the purpose sot forth.

ai. ln a stock-car having a series of stalls, the combination ot' straight guide-bars angular at their upper ends, partitions formed of suspend= ed slats, provided at their ends with collars fitting around the guide-bars, Iand with perforated lugs, a rope or chain passing through said lugs and connected at one end to the lower slot, and a drum and shaft to which the other end IOO of the rope is connected, for elevating thepar- 7. Inastoek-ear having aseries of partitions, tition to top of the ear, between the top and a Afolding feed-trough connected to the parti- 15 guide-bars, substantially as and for the pun tion and providedwith a Water-tank hinged pose set forth. thereto, so as to fold with it, substantially as 5 5. Astock-ear having aseries of stalls formed and for the purpose set forth. t

of elevating partitions, said partitions being In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my provided with folding feed-troughs, substanhand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 2o tially as set forth. f d nesses. t

6. Astock-earhaving aseries of stalls orme 1o of elevating partitions, said partitions being HENRY CLINTON HICKS' provided with folding feed-troughs and water- Witnesses: tanks, substantially as and for the purpose set C. N. WOODWARD, forth. l `LoIs FEEsER, Sr. 

